Children born too early may have lower test scores in school, according to a new study published in Pediatrics. Even babies who are technically born full-term — at 37 or 38 weeks — do worse than those who are delivered later. Although a pregnancy is considered full term at 37 weeks, at which point experts [...]
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A new UK study finds that babies born early, even by just a few weeks, tend to have higher risks of poor health in their early years, compared to those born full term. The study challenges the widely held view that the long term hea... Read Post
Children with ADHD who start taking ADHD medications later have lower math scores, compared to their counterparts who took medications earlier, researchers from the USA and Iceland reported in the journal Pediatrics. Those taking th... Read Post
Children born at weeks 37 and 38 had lower reading and math scores than children born a week or two later, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. Read Post